extinct
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To test these assumptions, we analysed more than 500 teeth from 27 primate species, both extinct and living.
From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026
"In heathlands like this one, native mosses have gone locally extinct or reduced significantly in their populations," he says.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
By the judgment of many, the red wolf is now extinct but for its genes, which live on in large coyotes.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
The scientists also carried out a large morphological comparison involving more than 2,000 chelae and similar grasping appendages from both living and extinct species.
From Science Daily • May 25, 2026
The donkey and especially the toad, the creatures most important to him, had vanished, had become extinct; only rotting fragments, an eyeless head here, part of a hand there, remained.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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